Michigan Law Professor Introduces Online Course - AI for Lawyers and Other Advocates

A top-notch law professor from the University of Michigan has recently launched a new online course titled "AI for Lawyers and Other Advocates" This program specifically helps attorneys, legal academics, and other professionals understand how to incorporate artificial intelligence into their work. It will, therefore, prove both practical and disruptive for the #legal profession.

An additional set of online courses headed by Professor Patrick Barry delves into the various advantages and disadvantages of artificial intelligence.

On November 4, Michigan Online and Coursera started a new four-part series, AI for Lawyers and Other Advocates. It will become part of a portfolio of more than 30 online #AIcourses that the university is developing through its CAI.

All the courses are offered free to #Michigan students, alumni, faculty, and staff.

Generative AI can transform teaching and learning in higher education as it has the potential to transform jobs and industries across society, said Laurie K. McCauley , provost and executive vice president for academic affairs, while announcing new classes. Such programs will help learners develop skills for enhancing their careers and create essential new skills for new jobs.

Barry, who or previously carried on the course development with CAI-is said to have made the course from a popular face-to-face course he has taught, Digital Lawyering: Advocacy in the Age of AI. It is to give an even wider pool of people an outlet for experimenting with and critically evaluating a wide range of AI tools.

I try to get my students to work with artificial intelligence both with an explorative and evaluative mindset, Barry said. What are its advantages, limitations, and how might this technology be able to reconfigure the way we study and practice law?

Specific topics covered in the course include:

• Using AI to become a better writer and speaker
• Using AI to become a better problem solver
• Spotting AI snake oil (i.e., over-hyped AI claims)
• Using AI to delegate tasks and manage your time more efficiently
• Avoiding delegation remorse.
• Using AI as a feedback machine
• Addressing AI bias
• Preventing a world in which researchers and advocates produce more but understand less.

Barry made it clear that the syllabus was designed in such a way to be dynamic; it would be updated according to the changes in the field. Also, it added an online format to work with, allowing the students to pace their work to shape their experience according to their particular needs and interests.

Artificial intelligence such as these were given the very simple name AI for Lawyers and Other Advocates with the hope that it could benefit a wide audience beyond lawyers, to help social workers, teachers, consultants, and many more, including journalists, policy experts, and so make it available. AI is quite inter-industry, and most courses we have tried to craft are as inclusive and interdisciplinary as possible.

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